Christiaan Welvaart <c...@daneel.dyndns.org> writes: > The problem is the following: > > 1. faac cannot go into main (see 2 & 3) > 2. faac cannot go into tainted (it is not free software) > 3. faac cannot go into nonfree (patented in some countries) > > so we only have 2 options: > A. ban faac and use the AAC encoder(s) we already have in mageia > or another one that can go into tainted > B. add a special repository for faac > > I prefer option A and I patched a gstreamer based video encoding app > to use vo-aacenc instead of faac a while ago.
I would prefer B: adding a nonfree-tainted repo (+ its updates/testing/backports/debug brothers). See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2833 for a list of packages needing faac. Yes, that's overkill, it will clutter the urpmi media config UI, but that's the only clean way we have. I guess a simple way to unclutter the drakrpm-edit-media UI would be to add a drop-down menu to select between "Release + Updates" (default and most commonly used media), "Updates Testing", "Backports" (whenever it gets in), and "Debug" (for debug packages of all aforementioned groups). -- Olivier Blin - blino